Subject: English Language Arts (12) Title: Move Over Real Housewives: Meet the Real Pilgrims of Canterbury Description: Using an online blog, students will learn about the pilgrims in Chaucer's The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales. Students will understand how what an author choses to include or not include reveals the author's attitude about a subject.
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.Subject: Business, Management, and Administration (9 - 12), or English Language Arts (12) Title: I Am What I Learn- Video Scholarship Essay ContestDescription: This lesson provides students with the opportunity to explore a variety of available scholarships to determine which scholarships may be sources of funding for college. Students will create a video essay which will be used to apply for a college scholarship. This lesson plan contains a financial aid component.

Subject: English Language Arts (11 - 12), or Social Studies (11), or Technology Education (9 - 12) Title: Civil Rights Movement Photo Story TimelineDescription: In this lesson students will be able to explain various events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The students will be divided into groups of 5. Each student within the group will receive an individual role of spokesperson, graphic designer, technical director or reporter. The groups will develop a Photo story timeline on four events that took place during the Civil Rights Movement using Microsoft Photo Story 3. This program will allow the students to create incredible multimedia video presentations using still images combined with text, narration and music. Each group will present their Photo Story presentation to the class and the students in the audience will complete an audience input guide.

Subject: English Language Arts (12), or Technology Education (9 - 12) Title: And Then There Were None: Casting the CharactersDescription: Students will work in pairs to cast their own movie version of the novel. Students must have a knowledge of the characters and setting from the novel. Casting of the characters must correlate with the character traits mentioned in the book.

Subject: English Language Arts (12), or Technology Education (9 - 12) Title: Digital Senior Memory BookDescription: Students will design a digital story that will consist of their memories and thoughts from their whole life. After the students finish the digital book, the book will be combined into a digital presentation to be shared at a senior luncheon.

Subject: English Language Arts (12) Title: Writing About Issues in the MediaDescription: In this lesson students analyze media coverage of current issues and present their findings in a formal research paper and class presentation.

Subject: English Language Arts (12), or Technology Education (9 - 12) Title: Powerpointing to Your CareerDescription: This exercise is used as the culmination of a career research project. This is a technology-based, interdisciplinary project which requires students to do Internet research and prepare a slideshow presentation. If a career is not used as a the topic of research, then the requirements can be adjusted to fit the topic of consideration.

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Subject: Arts,Language ArtsTitle: Shakespeare's ''Othello'' and the Power of LanguageAdd BookmarkDescription: This lesson, from EDSITEment, contains seven activities for students to explore the linguistic ingenuity of Iago's rhetoric in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. The activities involve a close study of key scenes, using worksheets to focus on the use of language to reveal character, motive, and theme. The final activity allows students to compose their own persuasive writing inspired by Iago's wordplay or a literary essay analyzing Iago's speeches.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 9,10,11,12

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Perspectives on the Slave NarrativeAdd BookmarkDescription: This lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today. The lesson focuses on the Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave(1847), which, along with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass(1845), set the pattern for this genre and its combination of varied literary traditions and devices. Students learn about the slave narrative and its importance in the abolitionist movement, gain experience in working with the slave narrative as a resource for historical study, evaluate the slave narrative as a work of literature, examine the slave narrative in the context of political controversy as an argument for abolition, and explore themes of self-actualization and spiritual freedom within the slave narrative.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 9,10,11,12